As gold is an excellent guide, they are used to produce consumer electronics.Of course, its high price means that it is used as little as possible.
It is estimated that one mobile phone has ok.0.029 grams of gold.This amount may not make a huge impression, but remember that only this year the total weight of electro -waste can exceed 57 million tons.
However, the physical presence of gold in a used smartphone does not make its recovery profitable.The whole process must be effective and cheap enough for the value of the ore acquired exceeds the cost of its recovery.There was a problem with this for a long time, but it looks like he was averted.
Brytyjska mennica zainwestowała w technologię efektywnego odzyskiwaniagold ze smartfonów
As reported by the BBC, the Royal Mint was the first in the world to sign a contract with the Canadian EXCIR startup.This is proud that he has developed a technology that allows you to extract over 99 percent from the printed plate.gold. I faktycznie — pierwsze użycie procesu przez mennicę miało pozwolić na szybkie uzyskanie metalu o czystości 999,9.
The whole process involves chemical treatment using a special preparation and takes only a few seconds.Its modification in the future is to allow equally effective recovery of palladium, silver or copper.
Currently less than 20 percent.electronic waste is recycled.Such a waste of resources has a negative impact not only on ecology, but also the economy.
It is no wonder then that the representatives of the Royal Mint cited by the BBC say that EXCIR technology is "revolutionary" and its potential "huge".It is therefore possible that other countries will also be interested in it in the near future.
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